Social Security Handbook

A child must be dependent upon the worker to qualify for benefits on
the worker's Social Security record. The factors that determine whether a
child is dependent upon a worker vary, depending upon whether the worker
is the natural parent, the legally adopting parent, the stepparent, or the
grandparent. The various dependency “tests” are set out in
§§334-337.

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